Fuel Tanker Owners Mad At BOST
The drivers have vowed to ground all their 3,500 bulk vehicles if their grievances are not addressed The rift, which had been simmering between the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) and Tanker...
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The Queen Beats The Crown At the Bafta TV Awards
Ant and Dec have dedicated their Bafta TV Award to the Queen after winning a prize for their presentation of her 90th birthday celebration event. The duo won the best live event prize for fronting...
Lavezzi Denies Racism As ‘wacky’ Pose Causes Storm
Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi has issued an apology through his Chinese club after publicity photos that showed him making a slant-eyed pose caused outrage on social media. Lavezzi, who...
Wal-Mart Pushing Hard To Catch Amazon In E-Commerce
Wal-Mart Stores, the 800-pound gorilla of retail, is running hard to catch up in an increasingly crucial segment where it is neither the biggest nor the best: e-commerce. The company, founded in 1962...
US Teen Suicide Series Triggers Alarm Among Educators, Experts
"13 Reasons Why," a hit Netflix show in which a teenager slits her wrists and leaves behind 13 tapes as clues to what made her do it, has alarmed US mental health experts who fear it glorifies...
TV Series Puts Human Faces On Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Hisham Suleiman now hears calls of "Abu Ahmad" when walking down the street -- a sign of the popularity of a television drama that dares to present a complex view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Fear and Panic Over Registration of Petroleum ‘Bulk Road Vehicles’
Fears are being expressed about the registration of Bulk Road Vehicles (BRVs) to convey petroleum products across the country. A credible source, that spoke to The Chronicle, alleged that the...
Netflix Rails At French ‘establishment’ After Cannes Ban
Netflix boss Reed Hastings has hit out at the French cinema "establishment", which he claims wants to block the streaming giant's movies from the Cannes film festival. Hastings took to his personal...
Comey’s Firing Leaves Red-Hot Political Case To Successor
After FBI director James Comey's firing, his successor faces a tough challenge to assert independence while pursuing a politically-charged investigation into links between Donald Trump's presidential...
‘Saturday Night Fever’ For LA’s Car Culture
From James Dean and the Beach Boys to "The Fast and the Furious," southern Californian pop culture is all about cars, surfing, movies and year-round sun. Yet the decades-old practice of "lowriding"...
FXX Announces ‘Deadpool’ Animated TV Series
Cable station FXX announced on Wednesday it had ordered an animated series starring hit Marvel anti-hero Deadpool, with Golden Globe-winning actor Donald Glover leading the creative team. The show...
Netflix Hit By Cannes ‘ban’ After Cinema Release Row
The Cannes film festival effectively slapped a ban on future Netflix-backed movies Wednesday after the streaming giant refused to screen its two films in this year's competition in French cinemas....
‘No Evidence’ of Hulk Wrongdoing In Chinese Super League Punch Row
A Chinese football official has said there is no evidence that Shanghai SIPG striker Hulk broke any rules after the Brazilian was accused of punching a rival team's coach. Guizhou Zhicheng's then...
I’m Not Ready For ‘Black Panther’ Fame
Many actors on the verge of the big time like to pretend they have it all worked out, that they know what to expect and are ready. Not Chadwick Boseman. The 40-year-old American actor spent more than...
Russia Blocks China’s Biggest Messaging App
Moscow's communications regulator has added WeChat to its list of prohibited websites, according to Russian state news agency TASS. The messaging app ran afoul of laws requiring companies that...
Pandora Explores Sale After Securing $150 Million
Pandora, which dominates internet radio but has seen its model eclipsed by music streaming companies such as Spotify, said Monday it was open to buyers after securing a fresh $150 million. Jim...
Hulk Denies Punch, Says ‘I Like Chinese People’
Shanghai SIPG's Brazilian striker Hulk insisted he likes and respects "all of the Chinese people" as he rejected claims of a racially motivated assault on an assistant coach in the Chinese Super...
‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Beauty’ Win Big At MTV Awards
Nostalgic horror sensation "Stranger Things" and Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" shared the spoils at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, expanded and renamed this year to include television. Netflix's hit...
China’s Tencent ‘deeply Sorry’ For Russia WeChat Block
Chinese internet giant Tencent said Saturday it was "deeply sorry" its messaging app WeChat was blocked in Russia, adding it was in touch with authorities to resolve the issue. WeChat, which had 889...
NPP Deceived You; Learn From Your Mistake – NDC To Traders
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised traders especially those who sell their wares at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, never again to fall for the deceit of the honey-tongued...